Space Exploration and EM

What is the weakest but largest type of wave

• Radio

• Electromagnetic

• Gamma

• Ultraviolet

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS4-3

This type of wave can pass through soft objects like gas and muscles but cannot go through hard objects like metal and bone

• Microwaves

• Visible light

• X-ray

• Ultraviolet

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

This type of wave can be used to make water molecules vibrate and heat up. 

• Ultrasound
• Infrared
• Microwaves
• Radio waves

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

If you were wearing heat-vision goggles you would see this type of wave?

• Infrared waves
• Visible light waves
• Radio waves
• Ultraviolet waves

This type of wave is famous for causing sun burn

• Radio waves
• Gamma rays
• Infrared rays
• Ultraviolet rays

This short but powerful wave can be found at the locations of nuclear weapons.

• gamma waves

• microwave

• ultraviolet

• electromagnetic

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS4-3

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

This type of waves makes up only 0.0035% of the electromagnetic spectrum

• visible light

• X-rays
• Microwave

• Ultraviolet

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS4-3

This type of wave can be considered "background radiation". This ancient energy is left over from the Big Bang.

• Gamma rays

• X-ray

• Ultraviolet

• Microwave

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

Which electromagnetic radiation has the shortest wavelength?

• infrared

• gamma

• microwave

• ultraviolet

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS4-1

We use these more-simple instruments to view space from earth. These are the first space-observing tool we had. 

• Telescopes
• Binoculars
• Microscopes
• Stethoscope